Copyright Brochure

Video

(for viewing)

What you can do The fine print

• Videotapes (purchased) • Videos (rental stores) • DVDs • Web movie downloads • Video clips (Quicktime, Flash, WMV) • Teachers may use these materials in the classroom • Copies may be made for archival purposes or to replace lost, damaged or stolen copies • The material must be legitimately acquired • Material must have public performance rights (check with your media specialist) • Instructor must be able to answer yes to the following five questions to follow fair use guidelines: 1. Are you a non profit educational institution?

2. Is the showing by and for students and teachers in a regularly scheduled class?

3. Is the showing in a classroom or other instructional place?

4. Is the showing from a legally acquired copy of the work?

5. Is the material to be shown a topic or part of the lesson being taught?

If the answer to all of these is yes, than the instructor may show the video without violating the fair use guidelines.

Video (multimedia) What you can do The fine print

• Videotapes • DVDs • Multimedia encyclopedias • Video clips (Quicktime, Flash, WMV) • Web movie downloads • Students “may use portions of lawfully acquired copyright works in their academic multimedia,” defined as 10 percent or three minutes (whichever is less) of a “motion media” • The material must be legitimately acquired (a legal copy, not a bootleg or home recording) • Copyright works included in multimedia projects must give proper attribution to copyright holder • Instructor must be able to answer yes to the following five questions to follow fair use guidelines: 1. Are you a non profit educational institution?

2. Is the showing by and for students and teachers in a regularly scheduled class?

3. Is the showing in a classroom or other instructional place?

4. Is the showing from a legally acquired copy of the work?

5. Is the material to be shown a topic or part of the lesson being taught?

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fair use guidelines The Copyright Law

The Copyright law exists to protect the interests of writers, artists, musicians and others who create original works in any medium. It allows such creators to obtain a copyright, which protects their right to profit from their labor by ordering that the work may not be copied, distributed or performed without their permission. Permission from the copyright holder usually involves a fee or license.

Any employee/person who makes copies of a copyrighted software package, video, book, story or a report and distributes it among other employees or uses it in the classroom is violating the law. Such an act would be considered “intellectual property theft.”

The penalties for the abuse would contain imprisonment and/or $25,000 fine for each violation. In addition to the penalties, the material can be impounded or destroyed.

Printed Material (short)

What you can The fine print

• Poem less than 250 words; 250-word excerpt of poem greater than 250 words • Articles, stories or essays less than 2,500 words • Excerpt from a longer work (10 percent of work or 1,000 words, whichever is less) • One chart, picture, diagram or cartoon per book or per periodical issue • Two pages (maximum) from an illustrated work less than 2,500 words, e.g., a children’s book do • Teachers may make multiple copies for classroom use and incorporate into multimedia for teaching classes (properly cited) • Students may incorporate text into multimedia projects (properly cited) • Copies may be made only from legally acquired originals • Only one copy allowed per student • Teachers may make copies in nine instances per class per term • Usage must be “at the instance and inspiration of a single teacher,” i.e., not a directive from the district • Don’t create anthologies • “Consumables,” such as workbooks, may not be copied

Printed Material (archives)

What you can The fine print

• An entire work • Portions of a work • A work in which the existing format has become obsolete, e.g., a document stored on a Wang computer do • A librarian may make up to three copies “solely for the purpose of replacement of a copy that is damaged, deteriorating, lost or stolen” • Copies must contain copyright information • Archiving rights are designed to allow libraries to share with other libraries one-of-a-kind and out-of-print books

Audio What you can do The fine print

Internet The fine print

• Icons

• Text

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• Some files and video may be downloaded for use in multimedia projects • Resources from the Web may not be reposted onto the Internet without permission. However, links to legitimate resources can be posted • Any resources you download must have been legitimately acquired by the Web site

Computer Software • Software (purchased) • Free and open source

• Software (licensed)

What you can do • All software needs to be district approved prior to acquisition • Software will only be installed according to the license agreement and district policy

Television What you can do

What you can

The fine print

The fine print

• Images

What you can do • Images may be downloaded for student projects and lessons

Graphics and Photographs

• Photograph • Paintings • Diagrams • Illustration • Maps • Charts • Collections of photographs • Lithographs • Collections of illustrations do • Single works may be used in their entirety, but no more than five images by a single artist or photographer may be used • From a collection, not more than 15 images or 10 percent (whichever is less may be used • Although older illustrations may be in the public domain and don’t need permission to be used, sometimes they’re part of a copyright collection. Copyright ownership information is available at www.loc.gov or at www.mpa.org

• LPs, 45s • Digital music downloads • Cassette tapes • MP3s • CDs • Audio books • Up to 10 percent of a copyright audio composition may be reproduced, performed and displayed as part of a multimedia program produced by an educator or students • A maximum of 30 seconds per audio composition may be used • Multimedia program must have an educational purpose • May not be posted to a public Web site

• Broadcast • Cable/Dish • Videotapes made of broadcast and cable TV programs • Broadcasts or tapes made from broadcasts may be used for instruction • Cable channel programs may be used with permission. Many programs may be retained by teachers for years — (see Cable In The Classroom [www.ciconline.org] for details) • Schools are allowed to retain broadcast tapes for a minimum of 10 school days. Tapes may be previewed for 45 days.

• Cable programs are technically not covered by the same guidelines as broadcast television